Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: Meaning and Power
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801879937
Subjects: Encyclopaedias & Reference Works; Old Testament; Judaism - Rituals & Practice; Blood in the Bible; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Sacrifice; Religion; Religious aspects; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Judaism - History; Religion / General; Blood; Anthropology - General; Judaism
First sentence: According to a dictum recorded in Sipra, the halakhic midrash on Leviticus, "there is no expiation except with blood" (`yn kprh 'l' bdm) (Nedaba 4:10).